Word: stewarding
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...Dollar Liner President Garfield had just docked on its regular round-the-world schedule. Passengers had complained of insolence and insubordination among the crew. One gentleman from East Orange roared: "Rottenest bunch of Red agitators I've ever seen!" Another said he was roundly berated by a steward whom he addressed as "boy." Dollar Line officials declared they were making a sincere effort to maintain the best possible service under the circumstances...
...addition two meals were served daily; dinner at 11.30 o'clock and supper at 7.30 o'clock. A watchful steward was on hand during meals to prevent second helpings or "extra-ordinary Commons" except by permission of the president and two fellows...
...Study, the Colledge fences about the Yard, pump, or clocks, etc: the same shall be made good again by all Students resident in the Colledge at the Time when such dammages shall be done or discovered to be done & shall be duly paid in their Quarter Bills to the Steward of the Colledge. . . ." It was found necessary to re-enact this...
FURIOUS YOUNG MAN-I. A. R. Wylie -Little, Brown ($2.50). Aid & comfort for the uneasy bourgeois conscience. An Oxford man makes the pilgrimage to Moscow but is happy to get home again. THE LUCK OF THE BODKINS-P. G. Wodehouse-Little, Brown ($2). Steward Peasemarch takes over while Valet Jeeves has a well-earned vacation. DUST OVER THE RUINS-Helen Ashton -Macmillan ($2.50). How to make a dull winter into something worse, or love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus...
...Houses of Parliament was being "renovated" for the coming trial. A woolsack was installed for Viscount Hailsham to sit upon in his capacity as Lord High Chancellor and a gilt chair from the King's robing room for use in his other capacity as Lord High Steward. For this occasion the House of Lords official known as Black Rod will carry not his usual black rod but a white rod, for the reason that after sentence is delivered the Lord High Steward must break Black Rod's white rod across his knee in token that the trial...